Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-13
CALIFORNIA.
The Alleged Injury TO the Riverside Or
ange Crop Denied.

The Alleged Injury TO the Riverside Or
ange Crop Denied.
RIVERSIDE, January 12th.-The fruit
growers and business men of Riverside are
very indignant over the report given out by
the house of W. 7. Coleman q Co., to the
effect that half the orange crop of River
side was destroyed by frost on Monday
morning last The report is false, and
libel on the settlement. In November last
there was frost here that affected small
percentage of the fruit III the lower por-
tons of the settlement, but on Monday last
the extreme cold was of so short duration
that in most of the orchards the tender
shoots grown within the past few weeks
were not wilted. This cold snap did not do
one-tenth the damage of the November
frost. During the past few weeks many of
the crops have been sold on the trees, at
high figures, being purchased by men who
understood their business, and these prices
would not have been paid for damaged
fruit
Los Angeles Items.
Los ANGELES, January 12th.-Major B.
C. Truman is here gathering data for a
series of letters to the New York Times on
the wine and fruit interests of California.
A large slate quarry has been discovered
in branch of the Soledad canyon, forty
miles from this city. The samples are very
fine.
A committee will go from here to the
Legislature to have thorough geological
survey made of Southern California.
A petition has gone on from here to Con-
gress for an increased appropriation for our
Postoffice force.
Three carloads of insane people from the
Stockton Insane Asylum will pass through
here to-day on their way to Arizona. They
are to be confined in the Insane Asylum of
Arizona at Phoenix.
An Act of Pure Courtesy.
STOCKTON, January 12th.-The Louis
villes and Stocktons played game of base
ball here to-day, resulting in score of IA
for the former and l for the Stocktons.
Exciting Contest With a Whale.
SAN LUIS OBIsPo, January 12th.-The
whalers at Port Hartford had an exciting
time yesterday. A school of whales entered
the harbor and three of them were cap
tured. One, gigantic bull whale, when
harpooned, towed the whalemen several
miles out to sea, and was only killed after
desperate struggle. Since Christmas six
of the great cetacea have been taken, ag-
gregating in value 5000.
Flowers and Fruit blossoms.
SANTA Rosa, January 12th.-Notwith-
standing the small amount of rain, grain
in the valleys in this vicinity is looking
unusually well, and ranchmen say that
feed in the mountains was never better at
this time of the year. Almond trees are
in bloom, and early spring flowers are
dotting the green hillsides.
Shooting Array in sonoma.
PErALUMA, January 12th.-J. ]. Jones at
Guerneyille fired at c. p Fried with a
shotgun on Sunday. The shot entered the
latters legs and body. Jones has been
arrested.
Admitted to Bail.
SANTA Rosa, January 12th.-Frank
Woods, the boy accused of the murder of
Lee n. Patton near Healdsburg several
weeks ago, has been released on $1,000
bail
Fresno's Poor Farm.
FRESNO, January 12th.-The county Su-
pervisors have purchased eighty acres of
land, two miles east of the city, for poor
farm, paying $1,000 for the same.
Light Rains Predicted.
SAN Francisco, January 12th.--Weather
indications for the twenty-four hours COM
mencing at 4 A. NJ. on January 18th !:
Light rains in the northwestern portion of
the State, as far south as San Francisco,
and fair weather IN the remaining portion
of the State.
Diphtheria at the Bay.
SAN Francisco, January 12th.-Nine
fresh cases of diphtheria were reported at
the Health Office this morning. The
record kept at the office shows that the
disease is on the increase. 1t is thought,
however that with the coming OF the rain
it will subside.
The Only Sensible Thing the Strikers
Have Done.
SAN Francisco, January 12th.-The strik-
ing carmen of the Geary and Suffer street
roads this afternoon put into execution
their project of running an opposition to
those roads. They ran five omnibuses
along Post street, which runs parallel with
Geary and Suffer streets, and they were
well patronized